Course overview
Orchestration 3 is a second semester course building on the skills and knowledge about Instrumentation developed in Orchestration 2. The course addresses the knowledge and skills required to arrange for larger orchestral forces. The course will be delivered in weekly two-hour sessions in which the first hour will consist of lecture-style presentation of works from the orchestral repertory (via scores are recordings) followed by a second hour of tutorial format in which students will complete exercises in orchestration. These exercises will involve: reduction from full score to short score; orchestration from short score to full score. The tutorials will include tutor review and peer review of the exercises. The stylistic range of the examples will extend from the late romantic repertoire through to the present day.
Course learning outcomes
- Ability to distil the information provided by a full score and present it as a short (piano) score reduction
- Ability to expand the information provided by a short (piano) score and present it as an orchestrated full score
- Knowledge of the capabilities of the triple-woodwind orchestras of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Knowledge of idiomatic articulations for the various types of orchestral instrument
- Knowledge of idiomatic techniques (arco, pizz, divisi, etc) for the various types of orchestral instrument
- Ability to apply correctly the knowledge about articulations and techniques
- Ability to present an orchestral full score neatly and correctly (whether handwritten or computer set)
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 27140
Section LE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29419
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
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